3. Other Social Platforms

How to Use Facebook Cover Photo Maker to Create Your Own Cover

Facebook cover photos are great ways of adding substance to your feed. It allows you to express yourself and your interests, in an easy but prominent way. Of course, to most of us, finding the perfect fit might not be that important. However, many businesses do find a need to have a properly formatted Facebook cover photo. It’s the perfect way of advertising the content, product, service, etc. that your business offers. Today, we’ll be looking into the different methods that you can use to create the perfect Facebook cover photo.

The first product that we’re going to be looking into is Wondershare Fotophire. Fotophire will allow you to make Facebook cover photos in a quick and efficient way. The Fotophire is an intuitive product that offers a variety of features. These features include, but is not limited to:

How to Make Facebook Cover Photos with Wondershare Fotophire

STEP ONE: Launch the Software

In order to launch Wondershare Fotophire, you will first need to download and install the product. You can download it for FREE, from the official website. The process shouldn’t take anymore than a couple of minutes. Once the installation is done, a popup box will appear on your screen (shown below.) After that, double-Click the first orange box called the “Photo Editor”. This runs the program and takes you to the main editing platform.

STEP TWO: Prepare the Image File

In order to begin editing, you will need an image to edit. If you know where it is, all you need to do is click the orange “Open…” text. This will trigger another popup box. Locate the image that you want to edit, and proceed.

STEP THREE: Create Custom Crop

Now that you have imported the image, we can get to cropping. Click the Crop icon. You can create a custom ratio by clicking “New” on the side-bar on the left. Assign the ratios as follows:

Width: 851 px

Height: 315 px

Then, click "OK" or press the Enter key on your keyboard.

STEP FOUR: Adjust and Crop

This will allow a pre-set border that you can adjust. This ratio is the perfect Facebook cover photo size, all you need to do is adjust as needed and click the “ Crop” button.

STEP FIVE: Save File

Now that the image has been cropped into the perfect Facebook cover photo size, you can edit the photo as you like, and then save. All you need to do is click the Save icon. This will prompt a windows popup, locate the folder that you want save the image in, and you’re done!

Part 2. Use Online Photo Editor to Make Facebook Cover Photos

Canva is an online editor. It’s a FREE online photo editor, one that allows you to edit your photos - so long as you have an internet connection. It’s the best online Facebook cover photo maker, and a good alternative to the Wondershare Fotophire.

How to Use Canva to Make Facebook Cover Photos

STEP ONE: Log in Canva

In order to use Canva, you’re going to have to sign up. This account is free, but they do offer a premium membership- one that requires a monthly payment. Once you’ve signed up, verify your account, and log in.

STEP TWO: Open the Software

The first thing that you’ll be greeted by, is their home page. This home page will offer a variety of different formats. As you can see from the photo below, the “Facebook Cover” format is 6th on the screen. Double-clicking this option will open a secondary tab on your browser.

STEP THREE: Upload your Image

Upload the image that you want to make into your Facebook cover photo. Clicking on the “Upload your own images” button will prompt a windows popup that will allow you to locate and import your image.

STEP FOUR: Adjust and Resize Image

The format has already been set, all you need to do is adjust and resize the image to suit your taste.

STEP FIVE: Download Cropped Facebook Cover Photo

Once you’re satisfied, all you need to do is download and save the image to the location of your choosing.

Part 3. How to Make a Facebook Cover Photo with Photoshop

The next product that we’re going to be looking into is Adobe Photoshop. This is a professional graphics editor. It focuses more on function, than ease of use, making it quite difficult to master.

How to Make a Facebook Cover Photo with Photoshop

STEP ONE: Launch Software

The Installation process of Photoshop is complicated. It requires you to create an Adobe Account and then download and install Photoshop CC. It comes with a 7 day free trial, but afterwards, you’re going to have to pay for a monthly premium membership. Once it’s launched, this screen will pop up. In order to begin, click the “Create new…” button.

STEP TWO: Create Document

In order to prepare your new document, you’re going to do several things. First, name your document, we decided to stick to “Facebook Cover” for this one.
Next, assign the ratios as follows:

Width: 851 px

Height: 315 px

Resolution: 72 px

Then, click “Create” or press the Enter Key on your keyboard.

STEP THREE: Open Image

In order to begin, you’re going to have to import your image into Photoshop. To do this, click the File tab > Open… This will prompt a windows popup to appear on your screen. Locate your file and proceed.

STEP FOUR: Duplicate Layer

Importing the image will open up a new tab on the interface. Right click on the “Background” layer and click “Duplicate Layer…”.

STEP FIVE: Copy Image to the ‘Facebook cover’ Document

Choose the document you created on the drop down menu and click “Okay.” This will copy the image to the document.

STEP SIX: Resize Image

Click Select > free-transform and resize the image. In order to finalize, make sure to click the “Apply” button on the popup.

STEP SEVEN: Save Created Facebook Cover Photo

In order to save your file, you need to click the File tab > Save… This will prompt a windows popup to appear on your screen, locate the desired save location and you’re done.

Conclusion

There are many graphic editors that you can use to make a Facebook cover photo. However, there is no doubt that the Wondershare Fotophire is the most helpful. This Facebook cover photo maker will allow you to resize your images and edit it to suit your needs.

Canva and Adobe Photoshop are good alternatives, but not perfect. Canva can only be accessed online and Adobe Photoshop is a professional software that is much too complicated for untrained users.

As such, if you’re looking for a software that is quick and easy to use, then we recommend using the Wondershare Fotophire.